If you think Tony Hawk has the market cornered on skateboarding birthday paraphernalia, well, he does. but there’s always room at the top… of the cake. Har, har. Shoot me.

Perfect for the Ryan Sheckler’s in your life:

A Must For Teenage Skate Boarding Fanatics ! Is it a skate board…………. no it’s a Mirror ! For those who like the quirky side of life, try our skate board mirror… to be admired but definitely not to be ridden!

It costs £110.00, and at today’s exchange rate, it can be yours for about $215.

Expanding on an idea already in practice elsewhere, designer Kris Lovett has made some heeled shoes for women out of used skateboard decks. He/she has put a battle of the sexes spin on it, although the irony of making heeled shoes for women out of the discarded waste of a traditionally male dominated past time surely must have occurred to Kris. I guess they aren’t high heels. Maybe someone will make a corset out of skateboards next.

Used skateboard decks continue to pile up due to the production of over 100,000 decks per month in the United States alone. Reply explores this material waste stream as a resource for women’s shoes. By utilizing the overall shape and material properties found within the deck, the women’s shoe takes on an interesting aesthetic quality. This project is also a reapplication of waste skateboard decks in an unexpected way. By taking a movement-based leisure product mainly utilized by males, a creative method of reuse is reapplied to a movement-based market for Eco-conscious women.

Pictures archived after the jump, but you really should see them at KrisLovett.com. [Source: NOTCOT.org]

Nothing proclaims your love for a sport more than your desire to surround yourself in accoutrements adorned with symbols of your passion. If you can’t be killing the coping at a particular moment, you might as well be killing your lungs with a skateboard-themed lighter.

Like shooting fish in a barrel:

MF: What’s your perspective on fitness for skateboarding?
I skate a lot with my shirt off, so working out has always been important to me. I almost have as much fun working out as I do skating. And seeing your body change, and seeing yourself get bigger and more toned and cut, makes a big difference in how you feel about yourself. As of right now I’m working out three times a week and it’s fun.

Check out the full Ryan Sheckler interview as part of 2008’s 25 Fittest Guys in America in Men’s Fitness magazine. – Thanks to Larry Pescatore for the tip, but don’t ask Larry what he’s doing trolling Men’s Fitness.

Cause he gets fan mail, and he really, really reads it.
Fan mail, and he really really needs it.
I sent you my letter now I want a reply.
You don’t know any better so you won’t take your time
with my fan mail

Name that slightly altered tune for a valued Noprize. (Everyone I know is disqualified.) This picture of Grover was sent in by an adoring fan, and he’s got more than one. Hell, since I’m wasting one of the precious few posts we have left before we hit 2000 (!) – We might as well have a GVK photo contest. The best Grover collage submitted will win an actual prize, maybe a skateboards or some wheels or some miscellaneous (and useful) items we have laying around. Oh, and of course, a signed glossy publicity photo of the Doctor himself. Complete rules and a source file of Grover you can grab after the jump. (– Thanks to Kevin Kotrell for this one.)

UPDATE: CONTEST HAS ENDED – VOTE HERE

Yes, you know the type. Hanging out here all he time instead of skateboarding… Oh wait. That’s me. These shots were taken in late 1999 with an early consumer digital camera. The lighting is kind of crappy. It’s battery powered, and the troll stands on a turntable set into the skateboard that spins as the it rolls. Hence the name “Turn 360°” Whee! I hate those little troll dolls. This one is about 8 inches tall if I remember correctly. It was annoying enough just to open these images, I’m not about to go dig around for it in the boxes of my basement.

You too can get Rad for as little as $25.99, literally! Adobe sells the typefaces Rad Regular and Rad Standard. Apparently, Standard regular is worth four bucks more than just plain Regular.

Typeface notes:
John Ritter, Adobe graphic designer, adapted Rad from a skateboard alphabet that he created for a college design assignment. In Rad, he captures the “no rules” spirit of the skateboard scene—one John was rolled up in when he wasn’t busy studying.

How does Rad compare to Skaterdudes and some of the other crap that is floating around?

The beauty is, it gets smaller, see? Insert joke about street skating decks here. Shrinky Dinks used to be pretty popular, but they don’t seem to be around much anymore. Maybe it’s because the patent expired and someone figured out a way to apply the technology to inkjet paper. The company’s official web site doesn’t mention them. This is the Shrinky Shiny Skateboard kit, from another company, which also appears to be discontinued. I found it on eBay in 2005 and put it on the old hard drive.

While searching eBay for an unrelated item, I came across this “skater girl” dance costume in a child size small. maybe that’s why they don’t fit the model in the picture.